Toolkit for Technologies teachers i www. universitiesofthefuture.eu Partners Maria Teresa Pereira (Project manager) [email protected] Maria Clavert Piotr Palka Rui Moura Frank Russi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ricardo Migueis Sanja Murso Wojciech Gackowski Maciej Markowski [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Olivier Schulbaum Francisco Pacheo Pedro Costa Aki Malinen [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ii INDEX 1 INTRODUCTION AND FOREWORD 1 2 CURRENT SITUATION 3 2.1 INDUSTRY 4.0: STATE OF AFFAIRS 3 2.2 TRENDS 3 2.3 NEEDS 4 2.3.1 Addressing modern challenges in information acquisition 4 2.3.2 Supporting collaborative work 4 2.3.3 IT-assisted teaching 4 3 TECHNOLOGIES FOR EDUCATION 4.0 7 3.1 TOOLS SUPPORTING GROUP AND PROJECT WORK 7 3.1.1 Cloud storage services 7 3.1.2 Document Collaboration Tools 9 3.1.3 Documenting projects - Wiki services 11 3.1.4 Collaborative information collection, sharing and organization 13 3.1.5 Project management tools 17 3.1.6 Collaborative Design Tools 21 3.2 E-LEARNING AND BLENDED LEARNING TOOLS 24 3.2.1 Direct communication tools 24 3.2.1.1 Webcasts 24 3.2.1.2 Streaming servers 26 3.2.1.3 Teleconferencing tools 27 3.2.1.4 Webinars 28 3.2.2 Creating e-learning materials 29 3.2.2.1 Creation of educational videos 29 3.2.2.2 Authoring of interactive educational content 32 3.2.3 Learning Management Systems (LMS) 33 4 SUMMARY 36 5 REFERENCES 38 4.1 BIBLIOGRAPHY 38 4.2 NETOGRAPHY 39 iii Introduction and foreword iv 1 Introduction and foreword This toolkit for teachers – technologies is supplementary material for the toolkit for teachers. It includes as set of digital technologies that can be used to support and successfully implement modern and innovative initiatives in education. Software applications that support such important areas of modern education as collaborative work, remote collaboration, information collection, sharing, and structuring, as well as moving portions or whole of the learning process on-line, are described. New educational needs can be regarded as a motor driving development of new IT solutions that can address them. However, it is also the opposite – the whole new world of emerging IT Technologies introduces completely new educational needs. E.g. the introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be regarded as a direct answer to student need for selective learning carried out by best academic centers that is not limited by geographical constraints, physical limitations for the number of enrolled students, or high price. On the other hand, the abundance of information sources, thanks to the Internet, stimulates the re- evaluation of educational principles themselves: from education based on information memorizing to education based on knowledge understanding and application, on information selection and structuring. Therefore, the development of IT and Communication technologies can be regarded as one of the major catalysts for the on-going process of adjusting education to the needs of the modern world. The selection of appropriate IT tools for teachers and students can greatly support the application of the process. The content of this toolkit for teachers (technologies) consists of or is associated with selection and description of technologies that support: ⚫ group project work, ⚫ e-learning and blended learning tools. Artur Wilkowski, Warsaw University of Technology 1 Current situation 2 2 Current situation 2.1 Industry 4.0: state of affairs Industry 4.0 is the new paradigm for production, organization, business model development. In many publications it is often identified using certain technologies as: augmented reality, simulation, autonomous vehicles and robots, additive manufacturing, industrial robotics, mechanical arms, distributed ledger systems, big data analytics, Industrial IoT, mobile computing, cloud computing, edge computing, multi-agent systems, software defined industrial networks, and device to device communication (Chen et al., 2017, McQuaid and Lindsay, 2005, Passow and Passow, 2017, Rautavaara, 2015, Adolph et al., 2014). Application of these technologies certainly change the approach to production and rapid change of business models (State-of-Maturity Report, 2019). Our life and work culture have changed rapidly in one generation. One of the reasons was new technologies, and thus changing social and economic aspects. Those aspects, after (State-of- Maturity Report, 2019), are telecommuting, emerging platform economies, increase of freelancing and consultant-style services, etc. The natural result of this process is the fact that interpersonal relationships between employees are increasingly interdependent (Hofmann and Ruesch, 2017). The result is a strong need for future employees to learn cooperation, teamwork and communication. What's more, the rapid development of ICT technology means that these groups can work remotely, which causes a need for new technologies for effective communication, cooperation, team management remotely, using digital tools. The selection of the digital technologies is described in this toolkit. 2.2 Trends In the State-of-Maturity Report (2019), an overview of trends and challenges in technology and education was discussed. The future trends and related challenges to the implementation of Industry 4.0 were presented, based on previously conducted interviews, and the initiatives that arose (from national to grassroots) as a result. The future trends and related challenges were grouped in following areas: • education and lack of skilled people in technology, • lack of vision on the value of technology, • promoting entrepreneurship for innovation and new business models, • speed, innovation, and collaboration over exclusive rights, • platform economies and the future of work, and • regulations. 3 Moreover, the State-of-Maturity Report (2019) presents the relationships between the trends and challenges mentioned, as how they might relate to each other. 2.3 Needs The most important developments regarding technologies backing-up introduction of innovations to education are briefly described in the following sections. They are based on several studies, benchmarks (Benchmarking report, 2018) and events connected to the Universities of the Future project (Ignition events, Blueprint enabling events). 2.3.1 Addressing modern challenges in information acquisition Any kind of research work at any level (students, teachers or researchers) involves collection of a significant amount of information. Due to modern information technologies and the internet, the main difficulty in this process (in many areas) shifted from the problem of finding information sources to the problem of selecting, filtering and structuring of thousands of information units available. In addition to information collection, it must be effectively shared between team members, maximizing not only transmission speed but also understanding. These can be identified as serious challenges faced by researches but also their supporting applications. 2.3.2 Supporting collaborative work While collaborative work is now a standard in business, many university programmes still concentrate on individual achievement and not group work performance. However, also here current trends are to put much more stress on collaborative work and collaborative design. Although face-to-face contact between team members is still regarded as the most efficient form of team-work, there are some successful attempts at remote versions of such collaboration. In either case such activities can and should be supported by software tools. Some uses include project management and documenting, data sharing, direct communication, and creative and collaborative design. 2.3.3 IT-assisted teaching Ongoing transition from teacher-centered learning into student-centered learning implies increasing independence of and selectivity by students regarding knowledge they want and need to acquire. In the context of problem-based learning approaches, classical static structures of education programmes become largely inefficient. Even within a single course modern students may want to choose some chapters that are more interesting to them than others. These needs can be addressed by modern information and communication technologies, specifically by moving some parts of the teaching process into the online world. Recently, MOOC platforms (e.g. Coursera https://www.coursera.org/ or EdX https://www.edx.org/) much benefited from this trend, giving students both opportunity to select 4 interesting material and an access to the best specialists in the given field. However, there are some other possible paths in addition to MOOCs. Even now, many universities hold whole university programmes on-line (see e.g.: http://okno.pw.edu.pl/ ). Another interesting option is blended learning. In this approach, in addition to direct contact hours, also virtual tools are used (e.g a volume of materials is stored on-line, so students can access and go back to the materials that are the most interesting to them). Software applications supporting such activities include applications for preparation of course materials (e.g. videos and interactive presentations), teacher-student communication tools (webcasts, webinars) and systems for management of the learning process (LMS). 5 Technologies fo Education 4.0 6 3 Technologies for Education 4.0 The tools supporting education discussed